Flax-stick

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum). New-Zealand

    "Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable."

  2. 2
    A New Zealander. Australia, obsolete, slang

    ""I always thought Australia was all good country," mused the driver—a flax-stick."

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new zealander

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"Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable."

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